Vanraj Bhatia

Vanraj Bhatia is one of India's most prolific and most accomplished composers and music directors. In addition to the scores of more than 40 Bollywood films and eight television series, Bhatia has composed more than 7,000 advertising jingles. Although he had difficulty breaking into the mainstream, Bhatia enjoyed a long, illustrious career. Four decades after he wrote his first jingle -- for Shakti Silk Sarees -- he was still recording and released an album, Ritika, in 1999 at the age of 72. Bhatia studied music at Elphinstone College, where he earned a master's in English wit...